In 1964, a young idealistic industrial arts teacher accepts a teaching job at an economically disadvantaged rural high school. There he defies the bureaucracy – and risks his career - by ignoring the approved curriculum and instead challenges a group of poor performing students to build an airpla...

WU JAO , an outspoken half-sister bartered by her step-brother to restore his waning reputation at Imperial Court, is dropped off at the palace gates to become the Emperor’s youngest concubine. Plunged into a breath-taking world of seductively scheming (multi-cultural) concubines, Silk Road polit...

An introverted single mother risks her life to find her kidnapped five-year-old son when the police fail and she can no longer trust those closest to her.

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Clayton: Allan Michael
Jenny: Kyana Teresa

A classic noir with a twist. A self-loathing cop can't protect his new lover without betraying himself to his fellow officers who determined to destroy his kind.

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Ben: Steve Rizzo
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After moving back home for a respite following the sudden death of her husband, Mary Wells, 50s, struggles to assert her identity under the wing of her emotionally abusive mother.

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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Evelyn: Kyana Teresa
Mary: Hannah Ehman

Tony Tranero is a Disco dancer at the end of an era, competing in a contest that could change the trajectory of his life. While preparing for this moment, he meets other dancers that are fighting their own battles that force him to confront the real politics of dancing - who gets to stand in the ...

Cut from his 1938 Oregon college team, pint-sized, teary-eyed basketball player takes the coach's advice and sets a goal of proving him wrong. He returns to his parents' California home and works exhaustively on getting stronger. He then painstakingly tries to secure the coach’s blessing by attem...

UNVERIFIED, 75min., USA, Thriller
Directed by Scott Herriott
Jason Sutherland wants to prove that such things as Sasquatches exist, but he doesn't want to kill one to do so. He and others come up with a non-lethal way to possibly verify their existence but a pro-kill advocate tries to beat them t...

THE WESTERWALD SECRET, 19min., Germany, Drama
Directed by Karl Bruchhäuser
A father and son tale. The fifty year old, cranky Hajo lives with his grown-up, beloved son Hasso deep in the forrest of Westerwald, where he is ever since struggling to shield them from the temptations and distractions o...

THE WORLD CRUZER, 105min.., Germany, Documentary
Directed by Yorick Niess
The World Cruzer travels through a future of nature pollution and climate chaos. Mankind is organized more democratically fighting for the survival of their own species. We share moments of insights with the World Cruzer on...

DANCE. DANCE. DANCE., 2min., USA, Dance
Directed by Karen Mueller Bryson
A collage film about the joy of dance made with images in public domain.

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I was interested in exploring dance from an historical perspective as well as expressing the joy of dance.

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MITLA | Underworld, 2min., Singapore
Directed by Mark Chavez
This 2-minute piece is an art film made to tweak the mind about the possibilities of discovery that are in the motifs and ideas surrounding the ancient yet unexplored archeological remains in the caverns of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico. The ...

BRAIN FLUSH, 3min., Italy
Directed by Elena Giulietti, Francesco Catena, Rebecca Maslowsky
Pippo is a man who's obsessed with social media and the “perfect lives” of others. Connection is lost and paranoia takes over him. He is forced to face his biggest insecurities, and realizes that in order t...

SOLSTICE, 3min., Canada, Music Video
Directed by Miguel Raymond
"Solstice" is a film that moves from light to darkness, opposes water and fire. In this stage of life, our choices influence our destiny, but it is a path that all must walk.

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WHY DID THE GIRAFFE'S FLOWER FADES?, 9min., Iran
Directed by Kaveh Kanani
Giraffe loves flowers. She keeps her flower in a jar to save it from wind and rain, but it withered; she is very sad and doesn’t know why it happened.
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A TRUE NATURE, 15min., USA, Fantasy
Directed by Nickolas Powers-Gomez
Plague survivors, Liam, Bird, and Hamill navigate morality and survival instinct as they struggle to make their way through a treacherous new world in order to reach the nearest safe haven known as, "the station."

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DESERTED MIND, 15min., Mexico, USA
Directed by Fadia Monserrath
In the depths of a doomed marriage, a wife attempts to find herself in the light of a new cycle.

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I went through an intense breakup with someone I really loved, fo...

RED WISDOM, 7min., Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
The bird flies in the sky, lands near a spring and is trapped. Ten men pull the nets and spin. In this rotation, the bird becomes a human. Man finds himself trapped in chains. Chains that end in the sky. On the way, he encounters an old man ...

EVERLASTING HAPPINESS, 11min., Australia, Experimental
Directed by Deborah White
'The tongue-in-cheek antics of spiritual anarchists fighting for a utopian desire in a battle against the pathology of the post-truth world.'

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

W...

ASPHODEL FIELDS, 5min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Luigi Calabrese
Asphodel Fields is an experimental short film that analyzes the cyclical, manipulative grasp that technology has on human beings and the latter’s desperate desire to escape modern life and regain a connection to the natural wor...

SWAM, 2min., USA
Directed by Cathy Teng
Swammer swimming thoughts.

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, 10min., Taiwan
Directed by Kai Soong Ng
A young, indefatigable office worker deals with an overwhelming workload. After work, he faints and falls beside a pile of trash on the street and accidentally meets a lazy, alcoholic street child who is living in the pile of trash.

D...

CONVERGENCE, 7min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters
Breaking a long slumber, a mysterious rope leads a soul through a decaying world as he attempts to connect with another.

Director Statement
Convergence grapples with fear, loss, and ultimately, con...